Hillsboro recorder. (Hillsboro, N.C.) 1887-18??, 1887-08-11
SOUTHERN BRIEFS.
CONDENSATION or THE BUSY
HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK:
Good Crops Assured-sociaI, Religious and
temperance Gatherings Boiled Down
Items-Counfry Generally Healthy.

items-Country Generally Healthy.
The Montgomery. Ala, Street Car
drivers struck for $14 week and twelve
hours day TO constitute days work.
The First Baptis. church at Osyka,
Miss, was struck by lightning, tearing
the whole Of the north side Of the steeplc
to pieces.
The Board of Health Of Atlanta, Ga !,
intend TO close up all the wells Of the
city, as it is found the water is impure
from sewage.
Maxwell, the condemned St. Louis
inurdcler, will not be executed at present,
las his case has been appealed to the
Vnited States Court.
Nman named Ferguson was killed on
the East Tennessee Railroad near Bras
well, Gs while attempting 10 jump on
a train, While in motion.
A fiue of tue ammonia chamber Of the
Central City Icdworks blew out at Ma
con, Ca, creating d great deal Of conster-
nation among the employees.
w. J. Whaley, CLERK for Grant, Nun.
day & Co., contractorso< Savannah, Ca.
has been arrested charged with raising
a check from s434 to "a, ,0Sf.
Charles X. Jones, proprietor Of the
Daily Observer at Charlotte, N. O. made
an assignment for the benefit Of his cred
itors. lie places his liabilities at so, Jais
Reports received from Manchester. Clay
county, in the southeastern cornct Of
Kentucky, state that riot occurred dur
ing the election in which six men were
killed,
Hon. K. w. Robertson died at Baton
Rouge, La, aged sixty.four. He served
three terms in Congress and was elected
in November last member Of the 50th
Congress.
The Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus
Railroad have located its line and work
will be begun on the road withinth the next
ten days. The line will be 142 miles long
and will pass through rich country.
The capital will be furnished by New
York and London bankers.
The choking Of the great sewer on
Lloyd street, Atlanta, Ga, has puzzled
the city authorities for several yeais and
il has Just come to light, that the gas
company had tapped the sewer in several
places and run their pipes through i, to
save them from digging up the street.
All the women and children have left
Morchcad City, Rowan county. KY, and
there is no one there except those who
intend TO engage in the fight, IL one take
takes place. The Tolliyer gang are armed
with Winchestep, and the Loganites
would have little show Of holding oul
against them.
Joseph ii. Rainey, once a prominent
colored man in South Carolina, has jusi
died at Columbia. He figured extensively
in politics, his superior intelligence and
good stock Of information giving hin
prestige among his party followers. Be
fore and during the War be was the bar.
Der nj the Mills house in Charleston.
Ata depth Of 900 feet, asmall flow o.
gas has been struck ut the Logan well
fix miles from Chattanooga, Tenn. Tho
gas was lighted and blazed up five fee
high, and the flow is continuous. Their
II considerable excitement, aud stock
company witha capital Of S20, 900 hai
been organized TO sink five more wells.
The son OF John Player, Of Kershav
county, $. g., aged years, accidentally
shot his little brother, aged 3, infictinl
n severe and perhaps serious wound. 4
i gun Ind been loaded without the know
ledge Of the father, and while the eide
boy was playing with il, il went of will
the result stated.
BY the breaking Of brake beam on
freight car on the Georgia Pacific Rail
road, near a station called Henry Ellen
several cars were dcrailed while on til
Cahawba mountains. The cars went dow
the mountain side aud were knockct
about badly. Conductor Dooley an,
Brakeman Tucker Of Atlanta were badl,
hurt.
DIR. w. II. Saunders, the physician ap
pointed 20 make examinations Of locomO
tive engineers and other railroad en-
pI0yes, under the new law which wen
into ciTcct fecsntly, abandoned his worl
at Stevenson, Ain. lie was arrested o.
writ Of mandamus, which requires hin
10 complete his test as 10 color blindness
Ills reason for abandoning his work
said 10 b. trouble with railroad men, 20,
OU0 10 number, who dislike the new law
Gen Samuel Jones. Of the judge adyo
cate generals Office. died IL Bedforl
Springs, Pa. Gen. Jones Nas born In Viz
Vinia III 1890. and was consequently six
ty.scyen years II age. lie was appoint
IA radrt ~ the Military Academy q
Wet r int, and after graduation en-
tered the arniy, where be served wit
credit III the Mexican war. He cJntin
ued In the service until the breaking ou
of the War, Nhcn Dc resigned 70 entC
the Confedcracy.
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